GOP Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson has asserted that if the United States had declared its intention to achieve energy independence after the September 11th terror attacks, moderate Arab governments would have turned over Osama Bin Laden within two weeks. [ABC]

Prof Jacquie McGlade said the UK was shifting away from clean energy as the rest of the world rushed towards it, criticizing David Cameron’s tax breaks for oil and gas companies. [BBC]

Some of the world’s most nutritionally and economically vital food crops are vulnerable to declines caused by steep die-offs of the bees whose pollination is key to their life cycle. [The NY Times]

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